Oppression In Marjane's Persepolis

The book, Persepolis, is a biographical story about of girl named Marjane that lives in Iran. Marjane and the children were marginalized at their school by the Islamic government and by their teachers. Marjane was also raised in an oppressive culture where a group is in position of power who controls the less powerful in cruel and in unfair ways. Also, a lot of women were marginalized after 1979 the Iranian Revolution. Marjane was living and growing up with a family that was a communist family. Marjane explored the theme of oppression throughout the book, she has introduced herself and also the troubles of the Islamic revolution through the symbol of the veil the caption says on page 3“this is me when I was 10 years old” which she was veiled

A lot of women reflecting the marginalized status in Iranian like faulty educational system also Islamic laws regarding marriage , the woman's right to divorce , the dress code in the form of veil. Some Muslim women regard veil as oppressive and restrictive while others viewed it as an expression of religious belief and protection from stares of men. In the book on page 74 Marjane’s mom was sexual assaulted because she didn’t have her veil on “Then thrown in the garbage.” On page 4 the government kills the dreams and desires of Marjane who wanted to study chemistry and be like Marie Curie , all of her hopes were shattered this shows that how the system affects one's life. On page 73 Marjane's parents never isolated Marjane from the Iranian social, cultural and moral values she was given all the freedom and choice she had always maintained her cultural identity as a Iranian women on page 133 Islamic revolution put an end to her independence and movement, she had been judged by a other women who didn’t like what she was wearing. “Aren’t you ashamed to wear tight jeans like these?!”Also on page 132 the arrest and the execution of eighteen year old Nilofar is another example for the brutality and the violence of the